This book offers historical and comparative analyses of changes in agrarian society forced by the globalization of capitalism, and the implications of these changes for human welfare globally.

I: Introductory; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The "End of the Peasantry" Scenario: Dream and Nightmare; Chapter 3: The Return of the Peasant: Possible? Desirable?; II: The People's Republic of China; Chapter 4: History, Capitalism, and the Making of the Postsocialist Chinese Peasant 1; Chapter 5: China Experience, Comparative Advantage, and the Rural Reconstruction Experiment 1; Chapter 6: The Political Economy of Spatial Inequality in China; Chapter 7: Reserve the Land for Family Farming; Chapter 8: Awaiting Urbanization; Chapter 9: Public Regulation of Private Relations; III: Tricontinental Perspectives; Chapter 10: Primitive Accumulation and the Peasantry in the Present Era of Neoliberalism with Reference to the Indian Experience; Chapter 11: Peasants in Indonesia and the Politics of (Peri) Urbanization 1; Chapter 12: Land Occupations and Land Reform in Zimbabwe; Chapter 13: Polycultures of the Mind; Chapter 14: Community Capacity and Challenges of Ecuadorian Agrarian Farmer Organizations for Generating Alternatives to Pesticide Use; IV: Epilogue; Chapter 15: Drawing Lessons from the 2008 World Food Crisis

Roxann Prazniak, Arif Dirlik, Alexander Woodside